News

• 16 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Fides asks Renato Farina about a new book “Humanity, its present and its destiny: conversations over a cup of coffee” a collection of interviews with Mgr. Luigi Giussani. Rome (Fides Service) - Conversations on the present and on destiny. For everyone. This is the essence of the latest book by Mgr. Luigi Giussani, founder of the Communion and Liberation Movement CL. “Humanity its prese ...
• 16 November 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Humanitarian situation in Aceh (Northern Sumatra) ever more critical NGOs warn Jakarta (Fides Service) - While the Indonesian government led by the new President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has prolonged the state of civil emergency in Aceh province northern Sumatra, where Jakarta’s troops are figh ...
• 15 November 2004
  VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope mentions Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday in Italy encouraging those present to “share resources with those in need” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In a brief address at midday on Sunday 14 November from his window overlooking St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II recalled that it was Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday in Italy when local Ch ...
• 15 November 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cease fire announced in northern Uganda: Bishop of Odama issues statement to Fides Kampala (Fides Service)- “We thank President Museveni and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) for this important step towards peace” Archbishop John Baptist Odama of the northern Ugandan diocese of Gulu, also chairman ...
• 15 November 2004
  VATICAN - Commitment to re-establish full and visible communion among all the baptised…concerns every Christian of every diocese and parish, of every community in the Church: the Pope said on the 40th anniversary of the promulgation of the Vatican II decree "Unitatis Redintegratio":” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his homily during First Vespers of the 33rd Sunday of the Year on Saturday 13 November in St Peters to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the promulgation of Vatican II decree on Christia ...
• 15 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Communion and solidarity between Africa and Europe Christ calls upon us - Christ sends us”. Catholic Bishops of Africa and Europe issue Message following Symposium in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- “Our meeting allowed us to gain a new appreciation of our histories and our mutual relationships, founded upon truthfulness and benevolence, recognising the gifts received on both sides. We share ...
• 15 November 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Although the faith is often subject to social and cultural marginalisation, men and women today still long to hear the Good News of Christ”: Message from Lay Congress Madrid (Fides Service) - In a message issued at the end of a Lay Congress in Spain lay Catholics said that concern for the situation in Spain marked by lack of faith in God, moral relativism does not discourage them inde ...
• 15 November 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Missionaries in Ivory Coast send more testimony: “Bullets whistled over our heads, but despite the danger we will not leave, we will stay with the people” Abidjan (Fides Service)- Missionaries working in Ivory Coast continue to send messages to Fides with regard to the situation there, the most recent came from two Italian Fidei Donum missionaries from Belluno - Feltre dio ...
• 15 November 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Three new priests Mozambique: Korean Foreign Mission Society starts evangelising mission in Africa Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Moved by the situation of millions of sick, poor and abandoned children in Africa, the Korean Foreign Mission Society, KFMS established in 1929, has extended its mission to that continent. In earl ...
• 13 November 2004
  VATICAN - Addressing Catholic Bishops of Africa and Europe taking part in a special Symposium in Rome the Pope said: “a style of fraternal love is the significant witness which the Bishops of the Churches in Europe and Africa are called to offer to face the great challenges which demand a response from the Christian faith”. The Pope announces 2nd Special Synod of Bishops for Africa Vatican City (Fides Service) - On November 13, addressing African and European Bishops taking part in a special Symposium in Rome, Pope John II recalled the intense relationship of “constant searching for fraternal co ...
• 13 November 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Catholic Bishops of Africa and Europe say “we want to see what can be done to make the Gospel have greater impact on the present day” Rome (Fides Service) - Solidarity among Churches of Africa and Europe, first evangelisation on both continents, immigration, the challenge of religious fundamentalism, Africa’s development, were some of the topics disc ...
• 13 November 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Escuintla diocese opens first Diocesan Mission Congress “With Mary to proclaim the Gospel of life and peace” Escuintla (Fides Service) - “With Mary to proclaim the Gospel of life and peace” is the slogan chosen for Escuintla diocese’s first Diocesan Mission Congress which opened on 12 November. Priests, religious and lay ...
• 13 November 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - UNICEF: two million women and children without water and electricity risk disease Rome (Fides Service) - UNICEF is deeply concerned for the crisis in Ivory Coast and its impact on the most vulnerable members of society, first of all 2 million women and children. In the main towns in the north, witho ...
• 12 November 2004
  Battista Mondin - "THE POPES OF THE MODERN AGES" From Pius IX to John Paul II - Urbaniana University Press Rome (Fides Service) - The volume in English presents the last ten Pontificates from Pius IX to John Paul II covering the period since the Church was deprived of temporal power. It describes the lives of the Popes with ...
• 12 November 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - An ethnic mosaic which threatens to explode Abidjan (Fides Service) - Ivory Coast is a mosaic of different ethnic groups and religions at the edge of a precipice. Its present national crisis threatens to explode in civil war with unimaginable consequences. The peo ...